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Food/Drink

Tea Blogging: Republic of Tea’s Cinnamon Plum

Despite summer being here you wouldn’t tell with the latest weather. It’s been cool and muggy the last few days in the evenings and well insulated during the day due to the fog. So in the evenings I’ve been drinking some Cinnamon Plum tea. Which has the tastes you would expect from colder times of the year.

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It has a very comforting flavor. It tastes great straight or with a bit of honey. It’s kind of lying to you though. There aren’t any prunes in the tea, but instead it uses sloeberries as one of the ingredients. I guess it would be more awkward to call it Cinnamon Sloeberry. :v It doesn’t change how I feel about it however. The berries pair well with the spiciness and black tea to make a rejuvenating cup that’ll perk you up and take the chill out of the bones.

This one will be around for awhile. I get distracted by a few other flavors.

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Meanwhile… In my own world.

Laid about for most of the day. I was actually expecting company to come over but they never showed. I wanted to showcase my computer to them because I’ve been looking into upgrading my motherboard. Still keeping with the same chipset but with more SATA ports. I currently have 6 but that just doesn’t cut the mustard for me. And some people at work are wanting to build gaming PC’s (especially after seeing what I can do with my laptop), so between some people I may be able to help them out while getting a nice upgrade in the process.

I didn’t really do much yesterday either when I got home. I was pretty exhausted since I couldn’t nod off, and pissed off about a part of my work day. That kid that’s been pestering me to give me my phone number/email/facebook/underwear size was in about ten minutes after I showed up for work. He sat next to me while I was cleaning off shelves and merchandise and tried to make small talk. Then after some awkward pauses he had to go and gave me a hug. I finally reached my breaking point… I was polite about it though, told him to respect my space after he let go. And he had this look on his face like he didn’t do anything wrong. “Ok” was all he could say. I talked to my boss, and another co-worker who met the guy the same day that I did, and apparently I’m the only one he seems to be getting touchy touchy with. No sir… I don’t like it.

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Early Morning Open Thread Of Openess

Encountered one of the guys who is really interested in getting together with me. He tried to get my facebook information so that he could keep in contact and was rather disappointed when I revealed that I don’t do social media. He couldn’t believe a “tech savvy” person would have no interest in facebook because y’know… I guess you have to be smart to use facebook, right? That’s why it’s common for facebook users to friend their bosses or employees and post stupid shit that ends up getting them fired. Yeah, smart people.

Then he tried to get my email address, which I don’t give out either. A week ago he tried to get me to enter my phone number into his cellphone… Him (and his father who he pals around with) are new to town, and don’t really have anything to do around here because it’s a small town. So they hang out in the store everyday and follow employees around (including me), sometimes making multiple trips. Whenever I have a day off I don’t go shopping or anything. I go for walks, go to an occasional party with friends or just keep to myself. He keeps asking me where I’ve been during my days off as if I’ve been avoiding him, then passes it off as a joke and tells me not to get flustered…

He seems like a nice kid, but as I’ve said before I don’t really hang out with customers. Hell I rarely have time to hang out with my friends who happen to be employees. Plus I’m too busy coming up with my own stuff to do. Like today I chatted with my international buddies, tidied up a bit, drank tea and tested out my new costume pieces. So far I’m happy with the results! I also got my paints in the mail today so next time I’m ready I’ll be able to do some painting on my mask. So far for the costume I have:

A mask (that needs to be painted and strapped)
A bandana
A hooded cape
A wig

When I’m done with this I’m gonna freak out soooo many people at Halloween time. I know at least two or three people that’ll get the joke. Even if people don’t get it (since it involves the gaming universe in a way) it’ll still be fun to dress up as something original.

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Early Morning Open Thread

The weirdos have been out in full force. I was working tonight and we had a drunkard wander in looking for a solar charger, and getting pissy when we said we didn’t carry any. And yesterday I had an old man tell me that I’m an angel in disguise… okay? Not sure what he meant by that. If he saw my mad skyrim skillz he’d see I’ve become the angel of death… who happens to kill things that are already dead.

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I know one thing, he didn’t mean Angel Of Darkness.

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Someday… If I have enough alcohol I may be able to finish the first level.

Gaming

So, Arkham Knight was destined to suck?

I’m not entirely surprised by this, but there is a possibility that Warner Bros knew about the problems with the PC port of Arkham Knight and decided to release it anyway.

“I will say that it’s pretty rich for WB to act like they had no idea the game was in such a horrible state,” said one quality assurance tester who worked on the game for years. “It’s been like this for months and all the problems we see now were the exact same, unchanged, almost a year ago.”

I think the new Steam refund policy was a crucial role in this incident. I don’t think WB expected a mass volume of people demanding to get their money back for such a poorly ported game, hence they pulled it from everywhere. Steam is the biggest distribution service for PC games, and to have your game be the most refunded is a pretty bad mark against you.

Now if they could just fix the refund system so that small indies don’t get screwed by people who buy their small games just to finish them in half an hour and ask for a refund… But that’s another issue.